How to Remove Newtab.win “Virus” (Chrome/FF/IE) Jan. 2018 Update

This page aims to help you remove Newtab.win “Virus”. Our removal instructions work for Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer, as well as every version of Windows.

In this article we will aim to provide you with the best guide and tips to aid you in fixing the latest trouble you might have gotten into. In this exact article we will discuss Newtab.win “Virus” – a version of a browser hijacker. Hijackers are browser-altering programs that do not spare any kind of browsers – be it Chrome, Firefox or Explorer, and cause certain changes to all of them. Such changes might apply to the way your browsers function, for example their default search engines might get altered; a serious broadcasting of pop-up ads may begin and even some annoying redirection could occur. We have included all the info you need to be aware of regarding Newtab.win in the passages below.

Newtab.win “Virus”

How does the standard browser hijacker function?

Browser hijackers are becoming really common nowadays. This sort of software is developed for the purpose of serving the online marketing industry. With the help of such software manufacturers and distributors promote their newly introduced homepages, websites, search engines, software and other products and services. That’s why the aforementioned modification of your browser apps takes place. Newtab.win, as a standard hijacker, is also able to provoke such browser changes. We need to say that Newtab.win and all the others common versions of hijackers are legal and the promotion campaigns resulting from the actions of those programs have never been against the law. Here are some other effects that you may expect from such software that could appear somehow frustrating, however, are not harmful at all:

A kind of research of your preferences and interests: These programs may normally access the history records of your browser apps and after that they can check what kind of products you seek on the Internet. Consequently, the flow of pop-ups is adjusted to all your supposed preferences and later see only particular ads that cater to your interests, and not just some random ones.

Potential slowdown of your PC: From time to time the modifications that may occur to your browser apps may result in draining your system’s resources, and you could start experiencing some unusually slow device performance in general.

Is there even a slight reason to identify Newtab.win a version of malware?

Luckily, the professionals in this field have got no reports of dangerous activity coming as a result of the infection caused by any hijacker. There is no proof that these programs resemble viruses in any way. Thus, you really have no reasons to worry about this, as Newtab.win is not malicious. To understand the differences such a hijacker and the usual types of viruses have, we have compared the two different categories below:

What is typical for viruses? What do hijackers do? Is it so different? To begin with – the way Ransomware and Trojans, for example, and browser hijackers act is very different. For instance, you should expect file encryption and blackmailing from a virus based on Ransomware. Nonetheless, you can’t expect it from any ad-generating program. What’s more, you should expect any Trojan to try to take over your system remotely, to keep tabs on you and to possibly drain your bank accounts. On the other hand, Newtab.win is perfectly incapable of doing anything illegal like that as hijackers aren’t normally programmed to violate the law or your personal space.

Hopefully we have shown you that hijackers are not likely to possess any malicious features using the illustrations above. Nonetheless, the ways hijackers may use to trick you into installing them on your PC might be alarming.

How can any device get infected by any browser hijacker?

The most common sources of browser hijackers are the popular so-called software bundles – free software sets. However, the hijackers they may include always have to receive your indirect approval to be incorporated into your PC since they aren’t self-installing viruses. The infection rendered by a hijacker might take place provided that you venture into installing any bundle in the quickest possible way – using the Automatic or the Default installation steps. Instead of choosing them, for the purpose of staying safe, you have to install any program via the Advanced or the Customized installation features. That way you will have the chance to manually include or exclude any programs from the ones that are to be installed. Furthermore, you have to be really careful when accessing a torrent or any other file-sharing website as they might be contagious.

What about getting rid of Newtab.win?

Our Removal Guide is here for you. Try it out!

How To Remove Newtab.win “Virus”

I

Before you begin completing the steps from the following guide, we advise you to place a bookmark on this page or have it opened on a separate device since some of the following steps will require you to close your browser.

Open the Task Manger by pressing Ctrl+Shift+Esc. Go to the processes/details Tab and take a look at the resulting list. If you see a process with the name of the unwanted program or looks shady, right-click on it and select Open File Location. If you believe it is part of the infection, delete the files.

III

Use the Winkey+R key combination to open the Run window and in the search field type appwiz.cpl. Hit Enter and in the resulting list, look for recently installed programs that look potentially unwanted. If you find anything – uninstall it.

IV

Re-open Run and this tie type msconfig. Hit Enter again and in the resulting window, go to the Startup tab. See if there are any shady programs there and if anything looks suspicious uncheck it and then select OK.

V

In the Start Menu search field, copy-paste the following line: notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts . Open the first result and look at the bottom of the file where it says “Localhost”. If there are any IP addresses below that, tell us what they are in the comments since they might be coming from the unwanted software.

VI

Type Network Connections in the Windows search field and click on the first result. Right-click on the adapter that you are using at the moment and go to Properties > Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IP) > Properties.

If the DNS line is not set to Obtain DNS server automatically, make sure to check that option.

Now go to Advanced > DNS tab and remove everything in DNS server addresses, in order of use.

VII

Right-click on your browser’s icon and select Properties. Delete everything in Target that is after .exe”.

For Chrome users

Close Chrome and go to this folder: C:/Users/*Your username*/AppData/Local/Google/Chrome/User Data. Change the name of the Default folder to Backup Default. Re-open Chrome.

For Firefox users

Open Firefox and click on the Main Menu > Add-ons > Extensions. If you see anything suspicious there, remove it.

For IE users

When you open the browser, go to Tools > Manage Ad-ons and remove the unwanted software if you see it there. Next, go to Tools > Internet options and change the homepage URL to whatever you are normally using.

VIII

Open Run (Winkey+R), type Regedit and click on OK. Next, press Ctrl+F and type the malware name. Hit Enter and delete everything that gets found.

If there are no results from the search, manually visit those folders in the Registry Editor.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Microsoft/Internet Explorer/Main

If you find there any suspicious keys that have names with a lot of random letters and numbers, delete them or if you are not sure, tell us in the comments what you saw.